Your office view

**marty** · 25th February 2009, 10:57

one from one of mine....

**Finn** · 25th February 2009, 11:07

Originally Posted by Timber020

My office view varies

You'll be pleased to know that under a revamp of the resource management act (thanks to National) you'll be able to cut down those damn trees to better enjoy that wonderful view from your office.

I've already oiled up my chainsaw ready for some native carnage. But don't worry about all the nesting birdies, they be humanely euthanised first.

**Winter** · 25th February 2009, 11:27

Different every day but this is pretty typical.

**Badger8** · 25th February 2009, 14:33

Found some cool snaps on the network at work. Doesnt happen all the time, but damn impressive when it does

**Finn** · 25th February 2009, 14:35

Originally Posted by Badger8

Found some cool snaps on the network at work. Doesnt happen all the time, but damn impressive when it does

Cool but what the hell is it?

**Badger8** · 25th February 2009, 14:44

Originally Posted by Finn

Cool but what the hell is it?

Yeah, a little hard to understand if you dont know i guess

That is a rolling mill, we make reinforcing steel and wire rod.
Billets (~1.4T of steel) come in from the left hand end out of the furnace at up to 1200 °C and get squashed between the rolls, gets smaller and smaller, then squash on the deformations etc for re-bar.
That is what happens when the steel doesnt go where you want it to, that big glowing line is the nose of the billet stubbing, and the rest just keeps on coming, so it curls and and goes everywhere. At that point in the mill it is moving slow, and there's nothing much you can do about it. Just let it all come through, and pick up a gas axe.
The second one is where it has ripped the delivery tackle clean off and picked it up in the air (the dark chunk on the glowing thing

). That piece of tackle needs a crane to put in place, and is held down by 4x M30 capscrews that sheared clean off, so you get an idea of the raw power involved.
When that happens further down the mill where the bar is moving faster (like 30 m/s) you dont wanna be standing around...

**keithbuckby** · 25th February 2009, 14:46

Originally Posted by Badger8

Yeah, a little hard to understand if you dont know i guess

That is a rolling mill, we make reinforcing steel and wire rod.
Billets (~1.4T of steel) come in from the left hand end out of the furnace at up to 1200 °C and get squashed between the rolls, gets smaller and smaller, then squash on the deformations etc for re-bar.
That is what happens when the steel doesnt go where you want it to, that big glowing line is the nose of the billet stubbing, and the rest just keeps on coming, so it curls and and goes everywhere. At that point in the mill it is moving slow, and there's nothing much you can do about it. Just let it all come through, and pick up a gas axe.
The second one is where it has ripped the delivery tackle clean off and picked it up in the air (the dark chunk on the glowing thing

). That piece of tackle needs a crane to put in place, and is held down by 4x M30 capscrews that sheared clean off, so you get an idea of the raw power involved.
When that happens further down the mill where the bar is moving faster (like 30 m/s) you dont wanna be standing around...

would make a cool garden sculpture! trade me here we come lol

**Badger8** · 25th February 2009, 14:49

Originally Posted by keithbuckby

would make a cool garden sculpture! trade me here we come lol

Heheh, laugh it up, it has been done before!

**Beemer** · 25th February 2009, 15:53

I work from home and don't have a bad view at all. When working on the desktop in the study, the view is of our front paddock and the neighbour's trees across the road.

When working on the laptop in the lounge, the view is a little more dramatic, and the view from the side deck isn't too shabby either.

And just to show we have great sunsets too - and a bird's eye view of the balloon festival too!

**keithbuckby** · 25th February 2009, 16:13

hubby asleep in the chair while you are working!!! lol

**Big Dave** · 25th February 2009, 16:14

That's an epic fail poster Badger!

**klingon** · 25th February 2009, 16:30

Oooooh as much as I 'm jealous of Beemer's workplace for the views... you really can't beat the Badger's for excitement!

Looks like someone trod on a tube of molten toothpaste...

**Badger8** · 25th February 2009, 21:42

Have got some epic video footage of a couple too... may youtube them and post up if i get the inspiration

**gatch** · 25th February 2009, 21:46

Do it, engineering fails all almost always spectacular, like a shaft pulling out of a lathe chuck, missing your beautiful face by a 5/8 of fuck all and smoking a hole in a wall behind you..